Improving state compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) can be supported by monitoring and measurement. Current approaches to monitoring state compliance with the UNDRIP are qualitative and non-standardized, which limits comparability across time and across geopolitical lines. In this article, we introduce a novel approach to monitoring compliance with the UNDRIP and human rights more generally. This work highlights the potential advantages of using a performance improvement framework to clearly identify gaps in compliance, monitor state compliance with the Declaration over time, and effectively assess and compare state compliance. We describe the development of a standardized UNDRIP compliance assessment tool and report the process and findings of a pilot test of the tool. The pilot assessment utilized the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' (SRRIP; Anaya, 2014) findings on the situation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada in three thematic areas: (a) self-government and self-governance; (b) consultation and free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC); and (c) land and natural resources. While insufficient for a fulsome assessment of Canada’s compliance with the UNDRIP, we restricted ourselves to the report for two reasons: first, to test the applicability of the tool for quantifying qualitative data; and, second, to evaluate the degree to which the UN monitoring mechanism for Indigenous rights adheres to the Declaration’s Articles for monitoring and reporting. We discuss implications and opportunities for improving human rights monitoring and state implementation efforts.

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开发UNDRIP遵守情况评估工具：绩效框架如何改善国家遵守情况

监测和衡量可以支持提高国家对《联合国土著人民权利宣言》的遵守。当前监测国家对UNDRIP遵守情况的方法是定性的和非标准化的，这限制了跨时间和跨地缘政治界限的可比性。在本文中，我们介绍了一种新颖的方法来更广泛地监控对《联合国土著人民权利宣言》和人权的遵守情况。这项工作强调了使用绩效改进框架来清楚地识别合规性差距，随时间推移监视州对《宣言》的遵守情况以及有效评估和比较州的合规性的潜在优势。我们描述了标准化的UNDRIP合规性评估工具的开发，并报告了该工具的试验性测试的过程和结果。试点评估利用了联合国土著人民权利问题特别报告员（SRRIP；阿纳亚，2014年）在以下三个主题领域对加拿大土著人民状况的调查结果：（a）自治和自治；（b）协商并获得自由，事先和知情同意（自由事先知情同意）；（c）土地和自然资源。尽管不足以对加拿大是否遵守《联合国土著人民权利宣言》进行充分评估，但我们仅限于该报告，原因有两个：第一，测试定量数据定性工具的适用性；第二，评估联合国土著权利监测机制在多大程度上遵守《宣言》的监测和报告条款。我们讨论了改善人权监测和国家执行工作的意义和机会。